Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Aug 2003 17:40:26 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: kswapd is having a party |
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:10:15AM +1000, Duraid Madina wrote: >> Does anyone have _any_ idea what kswapd might actually be doing? I >> checked: not a single page was swapped in our out througout the duration >> of this test. Is there a chance that spinning on some lock (I have no >> idea how LAM does its synchronization), or perhaps even just idling, >> might be counted as kswapd0?
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 05:33:00PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > I'd look for dirty memory; kswapd does do some page cleaning, though > pdflush is supposed to do most of it.
Also, please log vmstat and take regular snapshots of /proc/vmstat.
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